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The 16 pages that link to Merit (Buddhism), each with the reason it gives.

• TheravadaRelated: Giving and other meritorious acts connect lay practice with Buddhist ethical aims.

• Buddhist pilgrimageRelated: Pilgrims often understand offerings, travel, and reverence as ways to make merit.

• DānaRelated: Giving is widely treated as a meritorious action, though traditions explain its results differently.

• Buddhist relicRelated: Making offerings to relics is commonly understood as a source of merit.

• StupaRelated: Building, honoring, and circumambulating stupas are commonly understood as merit-making acts.

• Buddhist ritualRelated: Many offerings and acts of devotion are undertaken to generate or dedicate merit.

• Buddhist templeRelated: Offerings and service at temples are often understood as ways to cultivate merit.

• Six PerfectionsRelated: Practicing the perfections accumulates merit, traditionally dedicated to awakening.

• Buddhism in ThailandRelated: Merit-making links everyday giving and ethical conduct with hopes for favorable outcomes.

• Buddhist hagiographyRelated: Acts of generosity, teaching, and devotion demonstrate how a saint accumulates merit.

• Diamond SutraRelated: The sutra compares the merit of reciting its teaching with that of immense material gifts.

• Ghost FestivalRelated: Some rites dedicate merit to deceased relatives and suffering beings.

• SaṃbhogakāyaRelated: Buddhist accounts connect a Buddha’s sublime forms and realms with accumulated merit.